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Damn suicide trees jumping out in front of cars! Honestly orrificer ... I was innocently minding my own biznezzz ... hic ...

Referring to the KotOR game: An entire world had to be left out due to time constraints. The first pass level art was finished, but time was running out, so we decided to cut it. The world was called Sleheyron and it was one of the many planets in Hutt space. Sleheyron was supposed to be one of the most industrialized worlds in the galaxy. It was going to be a world paved over with layer upon layer of gas refineries, landing bays, slave pens and ship construction yards. The biggest level was going to be a massive coliseum where the Hutt lords pitted their gladiator slaves against one another. We cut several sections out of Tatooine. The Star Map on Tatooine was originally located in the maw of a Sarlacc pit. The player had to find the Sarlacc pit in a cave complex and then figure out how to descend into the pit without becoming the Sarlacc

Ah, but if the Force "seeks balance", doesn't that imply a will? And if the Force is a powerful ontological object with a will, then it is tantamount to a god (or at least a minor deity, anyway). Either: the Force is nothing but a corporeal manifestation of good/evil/both, like some sort of ectoplasmic gravity with an ethical orientation (good points one way, evil the counter-direction); OR the Force is manipulating the universe according to its own (hidden) agenda. So, either we have free will, and we can choose to manipulate the universe according to the laws of physics and metaphysics (which includes this small "f" Force); OR the Force is manipulating the universe and the intelligent beings are deluded in thinking they have free will and the freedom to choose good and evil for themselves. Kreia subscribes to the latter.

REPAIR skill gives the ratio for breaking down components. creating an item is dependent on the paricular skill mentioned and the person creating. (Whether a bug or a feature, the Exile's REPAIR skill is the one used for all calculations, regardless of which character is at the workbench.)

DarthShad, I thought about that but decided since I was only going to focus on storyline questions this would be a better place for it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You might want to put a "Slight Spoilers Possible" warning in the subtext of the title, though, as anyone not finished will come across some information that they might want to find out in game, and this is the General forum.

So what imperative did the Exile have to go and fight Kreia on M5, after the show-dwon with Atris?

Gold!

Yes. intelligence is an evolutionairy cul-de-sac in the highway of survival. The armoured arthropods had it right. Brute force of numbers and a quick breeding cycle beats intelligence hands down. (A business analogy: cheap components bring the "bottom line" down and make for a more efficient and rapid manufacturing process. Quality is bogus.)

Ah, but some of them knew they were evil, didn't they? That's gotta count for something. I guess if philosophers can't agree on what is evil (absolute or relative) then we're going to struggle. Question: What alignment is Harry Callaghan (from the Dirty Harry novels and the quintology)? Someone on the NwN Hall of Fame suggested Lawful Evil, but I don't think this is true. I think he's more Chaotic Neutral with Good tendencies; after all, he is trying to make the world a better place (Good) any way it needs to be done (Chaotic), even if it takes an evil act (Neutral).

Should be -2 no ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> for each child: -2 INT, and +1 WIS (to a maximum of +1).

I just hope it's not the most obvious. I was kinda hoping he'd been killed. (Finally, for the twentieth time.) I remember reading Russell T Davies saying that one of his pet peeves with the last few series is that the Daleks ended up as henchmen , which just reduced their stature to Rent-a-crowd Monsters, Inc. So I wasn't expecting his re-appearance. (I still hope he doesn't ... but RTD seems to enjoy his deus ex machina endings ... ) I like the overall narrative arc that runs across the entire series: very nice. (I was initially skeptical of the single and double episode format, but the wide leit-motif link has invalidated that worry, nicely.) And I do like the half-a-million Daleks ... (w00t) And don't think we're far away from that sort of BB. It would take the Cult of Popularity smack-bang up-to-date and in-line with the Aztec culture it harks from. (The Aztecs would take young late-teenage boys and girls -- virgins -- and they would be feted for a year, living like royalty, literally, before their ceremonial (and very real) sacrifice. For the good of the society.) People make fun of the Roman colleseum, but its job was re-inforcing law and order: those participants were criminals serving out their punishment -- not volunteers. That's our modern sickness, this cult of popularity (people famous for being famous, like that ditz Hilton).

Oh, Wow! Now I remember Wing Commander. That was a cool game. Boy, that takes me back ... :cool:

I have to say that the episode just completed (the first of the two-parter with the Daleks) was brilliant. The writing is sharp, the characters interesting and the plot really gripping. (Maybe I'm biased, but there you go.) And thee are over 200 ships of 2000 Daleks about to invade the Earth .... and who was that voice ...?

Yep, I'm currently deep within a Nutella phase. (Actually, Green & Black's organic nutella-type spread.) :D

Peanut butter and jelly sandwichs are good, if you add plain ready-salted crisps, as well. :cool: It is weird the way the same product in a different country is made differently and tastes complpetely, incomplehensibly different. I have noticed this with products as diverse as Cadbury-Schweppes bitter lemon and Kellogg's Just Right breakfast cereal.

"Boots of Many Moods" ? "Boots of Women's Intuition" ? :ph34r: "Boots of Endlessly Dancing Feet"

Either your derangement or your deliberate misapprehension is difficult to contain, or both, but I shall soldier on. :D Not at all. As I keep maintaining -- and you keep ignoring -- I am defending the status quo and you are heralding some neo-puritanical regime. I am quite happy with the society, I just don't want extremists like you to start eroding my rights according to your own sensibilities. No, this thread is about what is appropriate content for video games. I want there to be a limit based on relevance to story; you want there to be arbitrary limits based on your moral code. If they are banned from popular media, then they are beyond public discussion. After video games, then film, and books, as well. Why can't you argue about the topic, instead of painting me as someone with a fetish for violence? Actually, I dispise violence, but we are talking about the ability to portray mature subjects -- which includes uncomfortable and distasteful subjects, like violence. No-one has suggested that we need FMV of penetration, or any such wild imaginings of your febrile mind. If it is pertinent to the story, I am all for my PC character's arm being severed whilst I can see it in 6.8 million colours. If it is pertinent to the story, and handled in an adult manner, I see no difference with my PC being raped. As long as the maturity of the audience is sufficient, then I see no problem. No, it demonstrates your utterly shallow interpretation of events. Sure you can say that the Alien in the eponymous sexology is a parasite. That is true. But you will also notice that the offspring has inherited traits of the host (for a clear example, see the Alien

Thanks, but I don't need your permission; owing to the vaguaries of fate, I was born to a non-disadvanted family in a country of means, so I am free to choose to live where-ever I wish. No, that is your narrow interpretation of the thread title. I do not accept that we are limited to referring to the future perfect tense. I am defending the status quo, and even suggesting that any topics are permissable if handled in a mature fashion, for the discourse of mature audiences. You, on the other hand, seem to be of the opinion that there are some subjects that cannot be discussed by anyone. And you continue to try to paint me as some prurient pervert who seeks salacious thrills vicariously, seemingly in an attempt to make you opinion more viable. It is what's being argued. No one here, in all these pages, has suggested that the player should be able to witness some horrific scene. Only you have. I would have such as you speak categorised as "gratuitous" and therefore inadmissable. Metaphor not a strong suit for you, then? You can take that explanation further, too. The male (in most cases) implants a parasitical life form inside the female. In fact, the battle for resources inside the females body during a pregnancy is quite informative: there is a real "cold war" between the f

Oh, no! The dilemma! Do I sacrifice brave Bothans to stop the evil Nartwak? Is that a compromise worth making? But if I leave the evil Nartwak, how many more Bothans will die? Screw it, I never liked Bothans anyway. :cool: Kill 'em all, God will know his own.

Pah, intelligent weapons are so last year. What about intelligent armour, like a helm that can sense alignment (whatever alignment is ) or a pair of boots that don't get lost ...?

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I really liked the intelligent sword idea from AD&D. It was kinda implented okay in HotU, but they obviously cut out a lot of the side quest for it . Elves tend to annoy me, poncing around like royalty. Humans get an extra feat at first level, but it sucks that they can't see in the dark. So whatchagot for the 'umans?

Right, well that means the fight begins here! (Bothans dead = sunk cost. ) I'll be revving my Death Star up and pulling it out of the attic, where I've been storing it, and I'll be hunting you down. Um, where do you live again?

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH